The Pædantic Programmerhttp://wp.colliertech.org/cj
If you can't find the time to do it right the first time, where are you going to find the time to do it over?Tue, 09 Dec 2014 17:31:45 +0000en-UShourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1MySQL Meet-up 20141208http://wp.colliertech.org/cj/?p=1438
http://wp.colliertech.org/cj/?p=1438#commentsTue, 09 Dec 2014 17:31:45 +0000http://wp.colliertech.org/cj/?p=1438Continue reading →]]>I had an enjoyable time last night at Twitter with local MySQL DBAs and developers. We had an attendee who has no experience with SQL or programming at all. She is interested in organizing her collection of recipes and had heard a rumor that MySQL was a good tool to use for this task. She indicated that her desktop runs Windows 7. I think I’m going to encourage her to turn her concept in to a community project, as she is not the first person I’ve met who wants to organize recipes!

We were hosted by Rob at Twitter, who used to work with Lisa back before she retired. He’s a member of the site reliability team and keeps the fail whale from rearing its blubbery head.

Pizza was provided by my dear friend and long-time open source buddy Gerry Narvaja with the assistance of the folks in the kitchen at Zeek’s.

We discussed new techniques in the areas of load balancing and high availability. Five nines is no longer the thing that people talk about, instead it’s six nines. It’s a brave new world out there!

I was not the only person who was excited about one of the latest features in MariaDB / MySQL to come out of HP, the high resolution time data types.

One of the attendees is an old hand at COBOL and was asking if anyone knows where one can get a COBOL runtime environment. I’ve never thought about that before… Let me ask the googs… Looks like there’s an active project called GNU COBOL which is officially part of the GNU project:

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http://wp.colliertech.org/cj/?p=1436#commentsTue, 09 Dec 2014 06:16:40 +0000http://wp.colliertech.org/cj/?p=1436I registered a domain that I’ll use for Orcas-local projects such as the Orcas Internet Exchange and various things like that.

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http://wp.colliertech.org/cj/?p=1427#commentsFri, 07 Nov 2014 22:58:16 +0000http://wp.colliertech.org/cj/?p=1427Continue reading →]]>It was a good summer. I took some time off work and spent a lot of time at the lake with the girls. Scarlet swam out to the buoy with me at least once.

I am working on improving the network service out here on Orcas and think we may be able to secure a /20 of public v4 space as well as increase the throughput of the pipe. We should know more in the next month or so.

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http://wp.colliertech.org/cj/?p=1419#commentsWed, 18 Jun 2014 22:33:11 +0000http://wp.colliertech.org/cj/?p=1419default route is now over a set of 3 ipsec tunnels with the voice server at the SIX. Let’s see if this proliant can reliably transport 12Mbit of crypto traffic…

]]>http://wp.colliertech.org/cj/?feed=rss2&p=13900Configuring voice service on a Cisco 2801 Integrated Services Router via Asteriskhttp://wp.colliertech.org/cj/?p=1378
http://wp.colliertech.org/cj/?p=1378#commentsWed, 14 May 2014 16:13:02 +0000http://wp.colliertech.org/cj/?p=1378Continue reading →]]>So I’ve configured voice service a number of times, but never using Cisco equipment. There’s a business starting up here on Orcas Island and they need a number of lines voice and fax service. I had a spare 2801 router laying around and heard that it’s possible to provision voice service using these machines. So I looked on eBay for a module that will provide more than two FXS ports and decided on the VIC-4FXS. When it was delivered, I installed it and booted the router. It told me that it needed a PVDM DSP Module, so I got one of those as well. It has arrived. I have installed it. Now when I boot the router, I don’t get a warning or an error.

configure the asterisk call server to accept outbound calls from the router

]]>http://wp.colliertech.org/cj/?feed=rss2&p=13780I should be able to do voice with this hardware now, right?http://wp.colliertech.org/cj/?p=1376
http://wp.colliertech.org/cj/?p=1376#commentsMon, 12 May 2014 22:52:58 +0000http://wp.colliertech.org/cj/?p=1376Continue reading →]]>